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One of my clients was a gunner in Germany in WW II. He explained that they had a hard time shooting down the stovepipes, the term he said they used for the German jet aircraft. At the end of the war, he stayed on to round up people and documentation for the trials and had a lot of freedom in where he could go. He told me that the Germans had train after train , loaded with jet aircraft ready to use, but they had no pilots. He said that they one of his assignments was to drop explosives into the cockpits of every plane to destroy all the instrumentation.(except for the few souvenirs he showed me that were pulled prior to destruction). I had no idea they were that advanced

That would be the Me262. We captured a bunch of them as well as the Soviet Union. From the info gathered on them we built the F86 Sabre jet and the Russians built the Mig 15. Both were very close in design.